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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
— Jane Austen ‧ Pride and Prejudice
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An editorial interpretation.
Such confidence, and such a suspiciously convenient truth. Austen's opening lets social expectations dress themselves up as common sense. Before we know what the wealthy man wants, everyone around him seems to have decided.
- Project Gutenberg — Pride and PrejudiceChapter I, opening sentence and following paragraphReference checked
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